ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...

In a museum with such diverse collections as the Dallas Museum of Art, a curatorial staff specializing in the areas of greatest strength is of vital importance. Fortunately, the DMA, whose collection ...

It has long been believed that within Ancient Inca society, khipus—intricate woven string objects used as a form of writing—were the preserve of the elite. But after studying human hair woven into a ...

This spring, 12 Princeton undergraduates in the course "Inca Art and Architecture" learned firsthand the critical role that landscape can play in the structure of a civilization — while challenging ...

Peruvian cultural officials have announced that a cutting-edge electronic survey of the southeastern city of Cusco will allow archaeologists to search for buried artifacts without having to dig, ...

A Chimú tunic A.D 1140-1440 from the Wise collection. Brad Flowers Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art When Maxwell L. Anderson, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art, opened the institution’s ...

The Inca may have built the Andean citadel of Machu Picchu decades earlier than previously thought: A team of researchers report in the journal Antiquity that scientific testing of human remains from ...

The Boca Raton Museum of Art is exhibiting cultural artifacts, gold collections and objects from the Incan city of Machu Picchu. Organizers say many of the artifacts from the ancient kingdom of Peru ...

A French cave with some of the earliest known paintings and Inca trails spanning six countries are among sites up for World Heritage status at a Unesco meeting in Qatar. Altogether, at least 30 ...

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